Amend CSHB 162 as follows:
(1) On page 1, add the following appropriately numbered SECTION and renumber subsequent SECTIONS accordingly:
SECTION __. The heading to Section 81.048, Health and
Safety Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 81.048. NOTIFICATION OF EMERGENCY PERSONNEL, PEACE
OFFICERS, DETENTION OFFICERS, COUNTY JAILERS, AND FIRE FIGHTERS.
(2) On page 1, line 6, between "by" and "adding" insert
"amending Subsections (b) and (c) and".
(3) On page 1, between lines 6 and 7, insert:
(b) Notice of a positive test result for a reportable
disease designated under Subsection (a) shall be given to an
emergency medical service personnel, peace officer, detention
officer, county jailer, or fire fighter as provided by this section
if:
(1) the emergency medical service personnel, peace
officer, detention officer, county jailer, or fire fighter
delivered a person to a hospital as defined by Section 74.001, Civil
Practice and Remedies Code [1.03, Medical Liability and Insurance
Improvement Act of Texas (Article 4590i, Vernon's Texas Civil
Statutes)];
(2) the hospital has knowledge that the person has a
reportable disease and has medical reason to believe that the
person had the disease when the person was admitted to the hospital;
and
(3) the emergency medical service personnel, peace
officer, detention officer, county jailer, or fire fighter was
exposed to the reportable disease during the course of duty.
(c) Notice of the possible exposure shall be given:
(1) by the hospital to the local health authority;
(2) by the local health authority to the director of
the appropriate department of the entity that employs the emergency
medical service personnel, peace officer, detention officer,
county jailer, or fire fighter; and
(3) by the director to the employee affected.
(4) On page 1, line 11, between "officer," and "or" insert
"a detention officer, a county jailer,".